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>>Very surprising news. He was only 58. I was passing by a TV tuned to Fox News and when I saw the headline, walking along and not paying too much attention, at first I thought it was Raul Castro.
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>>He sure wasn't any friend of the U.S. The initial analysis I saw from a talking head (John Bolton) was that his presumptive successor isn't much different. In a way it's too bad Venezuela has so much oil because it forces us to deal with them in some way, like the hostile Arab nations.
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>John Bolton. well now I guess you know all you need to know about Venezuala. BTW Chavez was not a friend of the US government. Also most of the oil rich Arab nations are friendly with the US. Now if China or Russia had all the oil that might be a problem.

I remember John Bolton. How that man ever wound up in diplomacy is beyond me. I was only identifying him as the talking head I saw / heard on Fox yesterday evening.